Andrew H. Longino

Andrew Houston Longino (16 May 1854-24 February 1942) was Governor of Mississippi from 16 January 1900 to 19 January 1904, succeeding Anselm J. McLaurin and preceding James K. Vardaman.

Biography
Andrew Houston Longino was born in Lawrence County, Mississippi on 16 May 1854, and he graduated from Mississippi College in 1875 and from the University of Virginia in 1880, earning a law degree. Longino served in the State Senate from 1880 to 1884 and as a District Attorney from 1888 to 1890 before seeking the governorship as a US Democratic Party member. In 1900, he was elected Governor of Mississippi, and he built the new state capitol building. Longino also invited President Theodore Roosevelt to engage in a bear hunt with him, leading to Roosevelt's sparing of a bear in the "teddy bear" story. He died in 1942 at the age of 87.